Massive procession on I-70 for a fallen Marine

MURPHY AND I AM VIC FAUST AND FIRST ON FOX AT 5 A PAINFUL REMINDER OF WHAT SOME SACRIFICE TO SERVE OUR COUNTRY. A YOUNG MARINE FROM SAINT CHARLES COUNTY MAKES HIS FINAL JOURNEY HOME. >> THOUSANDS WAITED AT THE AIRPORT AND LINE THE HIGHWAY IN HIS HONOR. >> AND WE HAVE TEAM COVERAGE TONIGHT OF THE HOMECOMING FOR LANCE CORPORAL JARED SCHMITZ THE 20 YEAR-OLD MARINE WAS KILLED BY A TERRORIST BOMB DURING THE FINAL HOURS OF AMERICA'S EVACUATION FROM AFGHANISTAN, FOX TWO'S MIKE COLOMBO WAS AT LAMBERT WHEN HIS LAND HE WAS GREETED BY MARINES FIRST RESPONDERS AND THE PATRIOT GUARD THAT WE START WITH ANDY BANKER WHO STOOD ALONG THE PROCESSIONAL ROUTE AND WITNESSED THE SOMBER BUT TOUCHY SHOW OF PATRIOTISM AND E. >> VIC FROM THE SEA OF FLAGS IN THE LAWN OUTSIDE VALLEY FUNERAL HOME TO THE SEA OF FLAGS FACES AND SIGNS THAT PEOPLE WERE HOLDING ALONG THE ROUTE FROM LAMBERT AIRPORT TO HEAR IT'S REALLY ALMOST BEEN OVERWHELMING TO TAKE IT ALL IN. AND FOR EVERYONE WHO IS PART OF IT TODAY. THAT WAS KIND OF THE IDEA. >> I WAS OUT ON THE GRASS AND MY WIFE TOLD ME THEY WERE DOING THIS AND I SAID LET'S GET IN THE TRUCK, LET'S GO. >> AND THE FIRST CAPITAL DRIVE OVERPASS ALONE. A COUPLE 100 OTHERS DROPPED WHAT THEY WERE DOING TOO. PAM MCCARTHY IS A DEAR FRIEND OF JARED SCHMITZ'S GRANDMOTHER DJ THEY ARE CO-WORKERS AT PHOENIX TEXTILES WHICH PROVIDES LINENS FOR US MILITARY HOSPITALS AT HOME. >> AND ABROAD THIS FLAG MEANS SOMETHING OUT OF THE ASHES. THE PHOENIX FURTHER RISES DJ SERVICE TO THE MILITARY. >> IN A HOLE IN IT IT REALLY IS ECHOED HERE TODAY THAT ALL OF THESE PEOPLE WOULD COME OUT AND JUST SHOW THEIR GRATITUDE FOR WHAT THEIR SON HAS STOPPED THEIR SON MARINE LANCE, CORPORAL JUST SHY OF HIS 21ST BIRTHDAY. >> KILLED IN THE SUICIDE BOMBING AT THE KABUL AFGHANISTAN AIRPORT AUGUST 26TH, GIVING HIS LIFE FOR THE EVACUATION OF FELLOW AMERICANS AND AFGHAN ALLIES. IT'S A WORLD AWAY FROM HOME WHERE HE HAD GRADUATED FROM WALT SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL JUST 2 YEARS AGO AND WHERE PEOPLE DID MORE TODAY THAN JUST TALK ABOUT SUPPORTING OUR MILITARY FAMILIES. >> THEY LINED THE ENTIRE 12 MILE ROUTE FROM THE AIRPORT TO THE FUNERAL HOME. CHARLES COUNTY POLICE STOOD AT ATTENTION ON THE INTERSTATE SAINT CHARLES FIREFIGHTERS SALUTED FROM ABOVE. >> AND A WOMAN FROM HIS HOMETOWN. >> HELD THIS TIME I HAD IT MY YARD FOR A WHILE WITH 13 FLAGS AROUND IT AND THEN TODAY I CHECKED IT OUT TO BRING IT HERE. >> HE IS IN HEAVEN THERE'S NO NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT HE'S YOU KNOW VISIT HERE. >> YEAH, IT WAS REALLY STIRRING IN PRETTY EMOTIONAL JUST STANDING ON THAT OVERPASS I HADN'T SEEN ANY OF OUR EXCLUSIVE AERIAL FOOTAGE FROM BOMMARITO AUTOMOTIVE GROUP SKYFOX UNTIL JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO THAT SCENE WHERE EVERYTHING ARRIVED HERE. IT WAS AMAZING. IF YOU MISSED ANY OF IT WE HAVE IT FOR YOU ON OUR WEBSITE. IT SHOULD TAKE A LOOK IT WAS CERTAINLY A DAY TO REMEMBER IN ST. LOUIS SAINT CHARLES COUNTY REALLY THE ENTIRE REGION WE'RE LIVE IN SAINT CHARLES ANDY BANKER. >> FOX STUDENTS VERY IMPORTANT FOR ALL OF US TO STOP AND REMEMBER. WELL WE CONTINUE OUR TEAM COVERAGE NOW WITH FOX NEWS MIKE COLOMBO WHO IS AT LAMBERT WHEN THE REMAINS OF LANCE CORPORAL JARED SCHMITZ ARRIVED. >> OF ALL THE PLANES COMING AND GOING FROM ST. LOUIS LAMBERT INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT WEDNESDAY, THIS ARRIVAL JUST BEFORE 1 O'CLOCK BROUGHT A CROWD OF HUNDREDS WE COME WITH HUMBLE AND CONTRITE HEARTS FOR A MAGNIFICENT MARINE AND HIS FAMILY OR THAT MARINE IS 20 YEAR-OLD LANCE CORPORAL JARED SCHMITZ OF WENTZVILLE SCHMITZ WAS ONE OF 13 US SERVICE MEMBERS KILLED AUGUST 26 IN A TERROR ATTACK OUTSIDE THE KABUL AIRPORT IN AFGHANISTAN, THAT'S THE LEAST WE CAN DO FOR THIS FAMILY, RODNEY BLEDSOE IS THE ASSISTANT STATE CAPTAIN OF MISSOURI PATRIOT GUARD RIDERS, YOU'LL NOTICE YOU WALK AROUND HERE AND YOU SEE THE PEOPLE THEIR YOU KNOW THEIR HEARTS ARE BROKEN. >> AND EVERYBODY IS GRATEFUL THAT THEY ARE HERE TO SUPPORT THIS GREAT FAMILY WE WATCHED AS A MARINE HONOR GUARD CARRIED SCHMITZ'S BODY INTO A HANGAR FOR A PRIVATE FAMILY MOMENT. >> MOMENTS LATER THE CASKET EMERGED IN WAS LOADED ONTO A HUMVEE TO BEGIN THE 8 MILE JOURNEY TO THE FUNERAL HOME. THE PROCESSION STARTED WITH THE PATRIOT GUARD RIDERS LEADING THE WAY ONCE CLEAR LANCE CORPORAL SCHMIDT SAYS CASKET CONTINUED ALONG THE ROUTE BEING SALUTED AS IT PASSED ARMY SERGEANT FIRST CLASS KOREA LEONARDO RODRIGUEZ AND JULIET ROSE BROOKS POSITION THEMSELVES ALONG THE PROCESSION ROUTE TO PAY THEIR RESPECTS TO A FALLEN COMRADE. A LOSS THAT HITS CLOSE TO HOME WHEN A SOLDIER GOES DOWN. IT'S REALLY HARD. >> AS A VETERAN MYSELF WAS BEING THERE. I CAME BACK HOME SAFE IT'S SAYING WE'RE CLOSING OUT OF THIS HAPPENED IS REALLY A TRAGEDY WE HAD A BOND REGARDLESS OF MILITARY AFFILIATION MEAN IN OUR BRANCHES OR WHATEVER. >> TO JUST BASICALLY BE HERE AND SHOW THAT RESPECT FOR THE FAMILY AND FOR THE MILITARY IN GENERAL DOZENS OF FIRST RESPONDERS FROM ACROSS MISSOURI AND ILLINOIS FOLLOWED THE CASKET ONTO THE HIGHWAY. >> DRIVERS ON I 70 STOPPED IN BOTH DIRECTIONS TO PAY THEIR RESPECTS AS THE MOTORCADE PASSED YOU KNOW WE CAN ALL ONE A. >> GO OVER THERE TO OUR TIME AND MAKE IT BACK HOME SAY TO OUR FAMILY SO IT'S UNFORTUNATE THAT CORPORAL SMITS WASN'T YOU KNOW FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO DO HEARTBREAKING HOMECOMING FOR A HOMETOWN HERO. >> A LIFE LOST IN SERVICE TO HIS COUNTRY. A SACRIFICE WILL NEVER FORGET. I'M MIKE COLOMBO REPORTING. >> AND A PUBLIC VISITATION IS BEING HELD FOR LANCE CORPORAL JARED SCHMITZ THIS SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 11TH THE PUBLIC IS WELCOME TO COME TO FUNERAL HOME IN SAINT CHARLES COUNTY CAVE SPRINGS TO BE EXACT TO PAY THEIR RESPECTS FROM 03:00PM TO 10:00PM A PRIVATE FUNERAL SERVICE WILL BE

Channel: FOX 2 St. Louis

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Length: 6min 6sec (366 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 08 2021